Stay (Anna Odobescu song)

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"Stay"
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Single by Anna Odobescu
Released25 January 2019
Length3:00
Songwriter(s)
Anna Odobescu singles chronology
"Agony"
(2018)
"Stay"
(2019)
Music video
"Stay" on YouTube
Eurovision Song Contest 2019 entry
Country
Artist(s)
Language
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s)
Finals performance
Semi-final result
12th
Semi-final points
85
Final result
Did not qualify
Entry chronology
◄ "My Lucky Day" (2018)   
"Prison" (2020) ►

"Stay" is a song by Moldovan singer Anna Odobescu. It represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel. [1] It did not qualify for the final. [2] The song is a medium tempo ballad.

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Eurovision Song Contest

The song represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019, after Anna Odobescu was selected through O melodie pentru Europa 2019, the Moldovan national selection which selected Moldova's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. On 28 January 2019, a special allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show they would perform in. Moldova was placed into the second semi-final, to be held on 16 May 2019, and was scheduled to perform in the first half of the show. Once all the competing songs for the 2019 contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the show's producers rather than through another draw, so that similar songs were not placed next to each other. Moldova was performed in position 3.

Track listing

Digital download [3]
No.TitleLength
1."Stay"3:00
2."Stay" (alternative edit)3:00
3."Stay" (instrumental version)3:00
4."Stay" (ESC Mix)3:00
5."Stay" (ESC Mix Instrumental)3:00

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References

  1. "Anna Odobescu will be heading to Tel Aviv to represent Moldova!". 2 March 2019.
  2. "Second Semi-Final: Last 10 acts qualify for Eurovision 2019 Grand Final". Eurovision.tv. 16 May 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
  3. "Stay - Single by Anna Odobescu". Apple Music . Retrieved 16 April 2019.